I know the BA has a built in Screen lock that means I have to press the power button and no other ones, to get it to turn on, but... if I have bluetooth on and it connects to my car kit, that 'wakes' the PDA and before I know it I have all kinds of applications opened cause my case is pressing keys.
I installed a Screen Lock I used on my 2210 which, when activated means I have to first press power to wake the PDA, then press key 4 and 1 to actually bring the screen back. None of the other keys will work unless I press 1 and 4 together first. This is great if I'm listening to music, I tap Screen Lock and put it in my belt case.
The problem with this is, when someone calls me, I don't seem to be able to wake it by pressing 1st and 4th keys like normal. I have to let the call go to answer machine, then I can wake the PDA...
Does anyone know of a better screen lock program that will let me take calls (or should I say, let me wake the PDA when a call comes in)?
Thanks.
No one can help with this?
Guys,
Do you know of a WM5/WM6 utility that will lock the keypad controls when the screen goes blank after 5 mins on my Trinity? What I would want to happen is that I press either the power button to take it out of standby mode and activate all keys again as it is hen its in my pocket the buttons get pressed and aspects like the start menu or contacts open automatically.
What i want is like on the Orange C500 where you press * enter or something to activate the keypad.
Cheers
Hawk
Simply go to your settings-system.key lock. There you can enable this function without a tool!
you can try an utility for vijay555 at www.vijay555.com, it locks by phone with the standard lock utility (the today plugin included by default) and turns off the screen, you can assign it to a key to have both things done automatically.
when you power on the device, you will have to unlock it to get the phone pad activated.
The default keylock does not work! It locks the softkeys but it does not lock the hard keys on the control pad as they often get touched and do things like access contacts etc when i do not want them too!!!
The default Keylock works for me- Orange SPV M700 with WM6 MunRus ROM- selecting 'Lock all keys except power key when off' also disables the navigation and phone keys.
It needed a couple of soft resets for it to take though.
tried that and it does not work?
or use the Slide2Unlock, it works excellent.
I configured it to lock when Light is dimmed, and then turn of the screen after 15 seconds, but without putting device in standby.
Then I disabled standby in the Power panel.
I also assigned to manually start it when pushing the button next to the power button.
So now I can start the music player, push that button and it will keep on playing. and to get back, I push the power button and slide finger over screen.
Done.
Real handy.
Don't forget to give some coffee to developer.
where is that utility?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=314703&highlight=Slide2Unlock
Hi all, the four front buttons on my BA are not working. They have not for some time now and it really doesnt bother me much but i can not clean my rom via Boot screen (NO, YES, YES). The 4 small buttons are the window start up button, mail button, internet button, and ok button. Any suggestions?
I read that you can use terminal and issue commands, that will HR your BA. Use search to find this metod (I never needed to do it myself).
Very simple and very very light application.
Does exactly what it says on the TIN.
The reason I compiled this application is purely to avoid using power button as I don’t want it to worn out. To turn the screen on or off we have to use power button which might stop working if we use the button too much. This application will cut the use of the power button by 50% at least
Rather than using the power button to turn the screen on and off, tap on this application to turn the screen off. Very small application V1.0
I might release another one when I get feedback from the users.
If you want just exe file then copy it in to your phonewindows->start menu-> program folder
Or use cab file which will install it on the above location for you
Enjoy !!!!
Trying to be contructive, the way this application could be more useful (to me) would be if it triggered the standard screen lock at the same time as switching off the screen. This would save me tapping 'start' then 'lock' and then pressing the power button.
Major_Sarcasm said:
Trying to be contructive, the way this application could be more useful (to me) would be if it triggered the standard screen lock at the same time as switching off the screen. This would save me tapping 'start' then 'lock' and then pressing the power button.
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That makes a lot of sense!
Major_Sarcasm said:
Trying to be contructive, the way this application could be more useful (to me) would be if it triggered the standard screen lock at the same time as switching off the screen. This would save me tapping 'start' then 'lock' and then pressing the power button.
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hiya,
much appreciate for your comments. do you mean turning screen off as well as locking the screen..? so that when you touch the screen it won't come back on...?
I'm working on to prepare better version i.e. it would be on the home screen so that no clicking on start menu and then this app.
cheers
Major_Sarcasm said:
Trying to be contructive, the way this application could be more useful (to me) would be if it triggered the standard screen lock at the same time as switching off the screen. This would save me tapping 'start' then 'lock' and then pressing the power button.
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I think he means that you program should not only turn off the devise, but also lock it with the standard WM lock at the same time. That would be good for me, at least.
EgorLev said:
I think he means that you program should not only turn off the devise, but also lock it with the standard WM lock at the same time. That would be good for me, at least.
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screen off + lock at same time only pressing Powerbutton.
It work perfectly for me so as it is. I changed the left soft-key so that it will start "turn off the light.exe" .When the screen is off S2U2 will lock the screen. So I can turn off and lock the screen with only one click.
To change the soft key do this:
with a registry editor go to HKLM/Software/HTC/manila/ . in HomeLSKPath (left softkey) or HomeRSKPath (right softkey) write the address to "turn off the light.exe". HomeLSKText and HomeRSKText are the text for the softkeys.
That´s it!
update for touch diamond
hi everyone,
massive thanks to all those who provided replies. I have tried on my blackstone (Touch HD) and it does seems to turn off the screen plus all keys as well.
I can confirm that it doesnt lock all the keys i.e. doesnt lock the device on touch diamond model. I'll modify the program and upload the newer version with the feature of locking the keys plus turning off the screen.
once agian special thanks to everyone.
Certainly reading the comments above, people seemed to understand what I was getting at. With the screen off, the buttons on a HD will indeed be non-responsive, however if an event (SMS or similar) woke the screen, the device would be in an unlocked state. What I would be interested in is a program that turned off the screen and invoked the standard WM lock program (gwes.exe?).
Hope that makes sense.
i like this application but i think the icon is really ugly..
Hi,
is there a possibility to do a screen unlock application which can be activated by voice commander? the situation is this...
I used voice commander to launch google maps while my hand is busy when the screen is lock. however, i will need a program which can be initiated by the voice commander to unlock the screen so that i can navigate the maps. Right now i will have to unlock the screen the normal way which i find voice commander redundant since i'll have to use my finger during lunching anyway.
Can you help me on this? Many thanks in advance. =)
Major_Sarcasm said:
Certainly reading the comments above, people seemed to understand what I was getting at. With the screen off, the buttons on a HD will indeed be non-responsive, however if an event (SMS or similar) woke the screen, the device would be in an unlocked state. What I would be interested in is a program that turned off the screen and invoked the standard WM lock program (gwes.exe?).
Hope that makes sense.
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Here is the app that has the feature which you prefer:
LockDevice => http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=542482
Thanks for the link!
Been using this app so i dont have to fumble with the power button to turn the screen off. Seems this app only turns off the screen and doesnt actualy put the phone in sleep. I would like an app like this that acts as the power button does. So when i put the phone to sleep with the icon, i cant accidently slide the keyboard out a touch and have the phone wake up.
The whole deal has to do with tilt 2's keyboard sensor and magnet cases. With this app, the keyboard sensor still activates when sliding into a magnet flap case, while having slie to wake disabled
carhigh said:
Been using this app so i dont have to fumble with the power button to turn the screen off. Seems this app only turns off the screen and doesnt actualy put the phone in sleep. I would like an app like this that acts as the power button does. So when i put the phone to sleep with the icon, i cant accidently slide the keyboard out a touch and have the phone wake up.
The whole deal has to do with tilt 2's keyboard sensor and magnet cases. With this app, the keyboard sensor still activates when sliding into a magnet flap case, while having slie to wake disabled
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Hiya,
I'm working on the program so that you can have configuration option to simulate power button to put phone in sleep mode or jus to turn the screen off. This utility was just for people who want to save power whilst listening to the music, etc.
Please keep any ideas/suggestion coming. Much appreciated guys.
Watch the space guys....
That is great inítiative. I use the screen off function actually for the purpose to save power when navigation. screen off when there is a long straíght way to drive.
Put device to sleep mode will cause gps signal lost, which is not so nice.
I can image that there will be a lot of person who wnat to have different adds-on on this small application, it might be a solution to provide command argument.
Thank you.
I will try to see whether this one works for my purpose. Actually in my situation, I even don't want any key be locked as these keys are mapped for navigation.
How about screen toggle thus it is possible to map this application to a key?
awesome, i mapped the exe to a hardware key next to standby. now i can easily save power while wardr listening to music. ^_^
it combines very well with s2u2 locking function too.
big thanks!
tom_hungston said:
Very simple and very very light application.
Does exactly what it says on the TIN.
The reason I compiled this application is purely to avoid using power button as I don’t want it to worn out. To turn the screen on or off we have to use power button which might stop working if we use the button too much. This application will cut the use of the power button by 50% at least
Rather than using the power button to turn the screen on and off, tap on this application to turn the screen off. Very small application V1.0
I might release another one when I get feedback from the users.
If you want just exe file then copy it in to your phonewindows->start menu-> program folder
Or use cab file which will install it on the above location for you
Enjoy !!!!
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Tom, may be it was to late to find your toggle light off switch, but it was very important for me to find it, thank you man, you solved a terrible issue for me, which is that programs stop updating (eg: twitter) when the device is in standby mode.
I heard that you can release another one, so my feedback is:
it takes about 2 seconds to turn off the light, isn't there any faster??? ))
This application is great. Combined with the S2U2 and HD Tweak i don't even have to use the power button at all. Device locked by S2U2 as soon as i turn off the light, waking up device by pulling out the stylus and rebooting with the help of HD Soft reset. Thanks
P.S. You should really add a decent icon, even though people can change it if they want to.
hi,
i used to have a hd2 phone, when i pushed the "end conversation" button, the screen would turn off and the phone would automaticly lock.
when i turned the screen back on, first i'd have to slide the button to the side to use the phone.
on my touch pro 2, it works different.
i'd have to press the button and hold for several seconds before it locks.
just pressing it once just urns off the screen, nothing more.
is there a way to make my touch pro 2 do the same thing like the hd2?
i want to lock itself everytime i press the "end conversation" button.
(that would be the button on the far right).
It's doesn't do exactly what you are asking about, but have you tried LockDevice 1.6? It simply locks the device everytime you turn off the screen. I have been using it for a while an love it.
hi,
i've just found it and downloaded it.
works like a charm... didn't expect my problem to be so easily fixeable.
sweet as....
supervinnie40 said:
hi,
i used to have a hd2 phone, when i pushed the "end conversation" button, the screen would turn off and the phone would automaticly lock.
when i turned the screen back on, first i'd have to slide the button to the side to use the phone.
on my touch pro 2, it works different.
i'd have to press the button and hold for several seconds before it locks.
just pressing it once just urns off the screen, nothing more.
is there a way to make my touch pro 2 do the same thing like the hd2?
i want to lock itself everytime i press the "end conversation" button.
(that would be the button on the far right).
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yeah i am looking for a natural solution without installing a cab, is it possible? lol
supervinnie40 said:
hi,
i used to have a hd2 phone, when i pushed the "end conversation" button, the screen would turn off and the phone would automaticly lock.
when i turned the screen back on, first i'd have to slide the button to the side to use the phone.
on my touch pro 2, it works different.
i'd have to press the button and hold for several seconds before it locks.
just pressing it once just urns off the screen, nothing more.
is there a way to make my touch pro 2 do the same thing like the hd2?
i want to lock itself everytime i press the "end conversation" button.
(that would be the button on the far right).
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Co0kie's home tab allows you to set an auto HDmini-style unlock (not sure if similar to HD2) and you can edit whether unlocks on call, lock after call etc.
tainle said:
yeah i am looking for a natural solution without installing a cab, is it possible? lol
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Not sure why you're adverse to installing a cab, but under All Settings --> Lock you can set it to lock "if unused for 0 minutes", but I believe this only works if you set up a PIN (which I have anyway for security, but if unused for 12 hours, as I use Co0kie's home tab as above), so this can be an extra hassle.
I have tried S2U2 ages ago, which gives an iphone-style lock screen with editable settings, but found it drained battery excessively. This may now be rectified, though.
I am using S2U2 and not having any battery issues with it. It does require a cab to install it, though.